Software Engineer (DNS & Cloud Infrastructure)

Salesforce, Inc.; Ashington; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Care

Life Insurance

Retirement Savings

Employee Assistance Programs

13 paid holidays and days off

Job summary

Salesforce, Inc. seeks backend engineers to design, develop, and operate large-scale distributed systems for a public cloud platform. You will build infrastructure-as-code, automate cloud provisioning, and develop microservices with Kubernetes and Docker to ensure high availability.

You will join an on-call rotation, collaborate across teams, and contribute to secure, scalable solutions across data centers and multiple clouds.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and cloud architecture.
• Proficiency in Python with OOP and concurrency concepts.
• Hands-on with Linux systems administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and operate resilient distributed systems across data centers.
• Build infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling for cloud platforms.
• Participate in on-call rotations to keep services available 24x7.
• Resolve complex issues to improve availability, resilience, and performance.
• Contribute to open source and use cloud provisioning technologies.

Skills

Python

Linux

Cloud Architecture

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Grafana

Spinnaker

DNS

Networking

Security hardening

On-call experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Mesos

Puppet

Chef

Salt

Ansible

Jenkins

Travis CI

Terraform

Git

Splunk

Spinnaker

Grafana

Job description

• Our Public Cloud engineering teams are responsible for innovating and maintaining a large scale distributed systems engineering platform that ships hundreds of features to production for tens of millions of users across all industries every day
• Our users count on our platform to be highly reliable, lightning fast, supremely secure, and to preserve all of their customizations and integrations every time we ship
• Deliver cloud infrastructure automation tools, frameworks, workflows, and validation platforms on our public cloud platforms
• Designing, developing, debugging, and operating resilient distributed systems that run across thousands of compute nodes in multiple data centers
• Using and contributing to open source technology
• Developing Infrastructure-as-Code
• Writing microservices on containerization frameworks such as Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos
• Resolving complex technical issues and drive innovations that improve system availability, resilience, and performance
• Balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and retirement of technical debt
• Participate in the team’s on-call rotation to address complex problems in real-time and keep services operational and highly available

Benefits

• Medical Care
• Life Insurance
• Retirement Savings
• Employee Assistance Programs
• With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year

You will need deep experience with concurrency, large scale systems, proficiency with solving real-world data management challenges, a strong understanding of how to craft solutions that are highly available, and a proven ability to design, develop, and optimize the core back-end systemsIn-depth, hands-on experience with Linux Systems Administration and Troubleshooting, servers, and Cloud architecture. Good knowledge of Linux internalsPublic cloud engineering on GCP, AWS, and or Azure platforms. Cloud provisioning, infrastructure, and migration at cloud scaleConfiguration management with open-source tools, ideally Puppet, Chef, Salt, or AnsibleCI/CD experience with tools like Jenkins, and Travis CIExperience with infrastructure automation tools like Splunk, Puppet, Spinnaker, Terraform, git, etcUse of AI assisted development tools to automate DNS and infrastructure managementMinimum of 3 years of backend software development experience (Python) working with Cloud ArchitectureSolid understanding of configuring, deploying, managing, and maintaining large cloud-hosted systemsEmbrace a culture and work environment that promotes diversity and inclusionExperience with Agile development methodology and Test Driven DevelopmentA continuous learner, a critical thinker, and a team player with excellent communication skillsStrong understanding of fundamental network technologies like DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, SQL, HTTP, Switches, RoutersProven professional work experience with Python. In-depth understanding of OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and concurrencyExperience maintaining monitoring platforms like GrafanaExperience with container and orchestration systems like Kubernetes, Docker, etcImplementation experience of large infrastructure projectsExperience using AWS Route 53Working in high-availability, 24x7x365 large-scale multi-datacenter environmentHighly skilled in packet analysis, network analysis tools, troubleshooting, and analytical fault diagnosisSecurity hardening of network infrastructure, such as DNSSEC